CLEF 2006: Alicante, Spain
Carol Peters, Paul Clough, Fredric C. Gey, Jussi Karlgren, Bernardo Magnini, Douglas W. Oard, Maarten de Rijke, Maximilian Stempfhuber (Eds.): Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer 2007 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-74998-1
Introduction
- Carol Peters: What Happened in CLEF 2006. 1-10
- Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: Scientific Data of an Evaluation Campaign: Do We Properly Deal with Them? 11-20
Part I: Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc)
- Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mandl, Carol Peters: CLEF 2006: Ad Hoc Track Overview. 21-34
Cross-Language
- Prasad Pingali, Kula Kekeba Tune, Vasudeva Varma: Hindi, Telugu, Oromo, English CLIR Evaluation. 35-42
- Nuno Cardoso, Mário J. Silva, Bruno Martins: The University of Lisbon at CLEF 2006 Ad-Hoc Task. 51-56
- Herika Hayurani, Syandra Sari, Mirna Adriani: Query and Document Translation for English-Indonesian Cross Language IR. 57-61
Monolingual
- Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis: Passage Retrieval vs. Document Retrieval in the CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Monolingual Tasks with the IR-n System. 62-65
- Marco Gonzalez, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima: The PUCRS NLP-Group Participation in CLEF2006: Information Retrieval Based on Linguistic Resources. 66-73
- João Marcelo Azevedo Arcoverde, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes: NLP-Driven Constructive Learning for Filtering an IR Document Stream. 74-82
- Annabelle Mercier, Michel Beigbeder: ENSM-SE at CLEF 2006 : Fuzzy Proxmity Method with an Adhoc Influence Function. 83-90
- Viviane Moreira Orengo, Luciana S. Buriol, Alexandre Ramos Coelho: A Study on the Use of Stemming for Monolingual Ad-Hoc Portuguese Information Retrieval. 91-98
- Péter Halácsy, Viktor Trón: Benefits of Resource-Based Stemming in Hungarian Information Retrieval. 99-106
- Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Kalyankumar Datta: Statistical vs. Rule-Based Stemming for Monolingual French Retrieval. 107-110
Robust and More
- Jesús Vilares, Michael P. Oakes, John Tait: A First Approach to CLIR Using Character N -Grams Alignment. 111-118
- Fernando Martínez Santiago, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López: SINAI at CLEF 2006 Ad Hoc Robust Multilingual Track: Query Expansion Using the Google Search Engine. 119-126
- Thomas Mandl, René Hackl, Christa Womser-Hacker: Robust Ad-Hoc Retrieval Experiments with French and English at the University of Hildesheim. 127-128
- Stephen Tomlinson: Comparing the Robustness of Expansion Techniques and Retrieval Measures. 129-136
- Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Carlos G. Figuerola: Local Query Expansion Using Terms Windows for Robust Retrieval. 145-152
- Adenike M. Lam-Adesina, Gareth J. F. Jones: Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Robust Cross Language Track. 153-156
- Paul McNamee: JHU/APL Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2006. 157-162
Part II: Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific)
- Maximilian Stempfhuber, Stefan Baerisch: The Domain-Specific Track at CLEF 2006: Overview of Approaches, Results and Assessment. 163-169
- Johannes Leveling: Reranking Documents with Antagonistic Terms. 170-173
- Ray R. Larson: Domain Specific Retrieval: Back to Basics. 174-177
- Jens Kürsten, Maximilian Eibl: Monolingual Retrieval Experiments with a Domain-Specific Document Corpus at the Chemnitz University of Technology. 178-185
Part III: Interactive Cross-Langauge Information Retrieval (i-CLEF)
- Jussi Karlgren, Julio Gonzalo, Paul Clough: iCLEF 2006 Overview: Searching the Flickr WWW Photo-Sharing Repository. 186-194
- Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Fernando López-Ostenero, Víctor Peinado: Are Users Willing to Search Cross-Language? An Experiment with the Flickr Image Sharing Repository. 195-204
- Paul Clough, Azzah Al-Maskari, Kareem Darwish: Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users. 205-216
- Jussi Karlgren, Fredrik Olsson: Trusting the Results in Cross-Lingual Keyword-Based Image Retrieval. 217-222
Part IV: Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF)
- Bernardo Magnini, Danilo Giampiccolo, Pamela Forner, Christelle Ayache, Valentin Jijkoun, Petya Osenova, Anselmo Peñas, Paulo Rocha, Bogdan Sacaleanu, Richard F. E. Sutcliffe: Overview of the CLEF 2006 Multilingual Question Answering Track. 223-256
- Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Valentín Sama, Felisa Verdejo: Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2006. 257-264
Main Task: Mono- and Bilingual QA
- David Tomás, José Luis Vicedo González: Re-ranking Passages with LSA in a Question Answering System. 275-279
- Emmanuel Desmontils, Christine Jacquin, Laura Monceaux: Question Types Specification for the Use of Specialized Patterns in Prodicos System. 280-289
- Johan Bos, Malvina Nissim: Answer Translation: An Alternative Approach to Cross-Lingual Question Answering. 290-299
- Adán Cassan, Helena Figueira, André F. T. Martins, Afonso Mendes, Pedro Mendes, Cláudia Pinto, Daniel Vidal: Priberam's Question Answering System in a Cross-Language Environment. 300-309
- Mitchell Bowden, Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Jonathan Clark, Dan I. Moldovan: LCC's PowerAnswer at QA@CLEF 2006. 310-317
- Gosse Bouma, Ismail Fahmi, Jori Mur, Gertjan van Noord, Lonneke van der Plas, Jörg Tiedemann: Using Syntactic Knowledge for QA. 318-327
- Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann: A Cross-Lingual German-English Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering. 328-338
- Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre: Cross Lingual Question Answering Using QRISTAL for CLEF 2006. 339-350
- Edward W. D. Whittaker, Josef R. Novak, Pierre Chatain, Paul R. Dixon, Matthias H. Heie, Sadaoki Furui: CLEF2006 Question Answering Experiments at Tokyo Institute of Technology. 351-361
- David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang: Quartz: A Question Answering System for Dutch. 362-371
- Pedro Paulo Balage Filho, Vinícius Rodrigues de Uzêda, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes: Experiments on Applying a Text Summarization System for Question Answering. 372-376
- Davide Buscaldi, José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis: N -Gram vs. Keyword-Based Passage Retrieval for Question Answering. 377-384
- Georgiana Puscasu, Adrian Iftene, Ionut Pistol, Diana Trandabat, Dan Tufis, Alin Ceausu, Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Iustin Dornescu, Mihai Alex Moruz, Dan Cristea: Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006. 385-394
- Romaric Besançon, Mehdi Embarek, Olivier Ferret: Finding Answers in the OEdipe System by Extracting and Applying Linguistic Patterns. 395-404
- Luís Fernando Costa: Question Answering Beyond CLEF Document Collections. 405-414
- Antonio Juárez-González, Alberto Téllez-Valero, Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda: Using Machine Learning and Text Mining in Question Answering. 415-423
- Manuel Alberto Pérez-Coutiño, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Aurelio López-López, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Aarón Pancardo-Rodríguez: Applying Dependency Trees and Term Density for Answer Selection Reinforcement. 424-431
- Sven Hartrumpf, Johannes Leveling: Interpretation and Normalization of Temporal Expressions for Question Answering. 432-439
- Laurent Gillard, Laurianne Sitbon, Eric Blaudez, Patrice Bellot, Marc El-Bèze: Relevance Measures for Question Answering, The LIA at QA@CLEF-2006. 440-449
- Sergio Ferrández, Pilar López-Moreno, Sandra Roger, Antonio Ferrández, Jesús Peral, X. Alvarado, Elisa Noguera, Fernando Llopis: Monolingual and Cross-Lingual QA Using AliQAn and BRILI Systems for CLEF 2006. 450-453
- Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Michael Bagur, Kevin Séjourné: The Bilingual System MUSCLEF at QA@CLEF 2006. 454-462
- César de Pablo-Sánchez, Ana González-Ledesma, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Maria Teresa Vicente-Díez: MIRACLE Experiments in QA@CLEF 2006 in Spanish: Main Task, Real-Time QA and Exploratory QA Using Wikipedia (WiQA). 463-472
- Luís Sarmento: A First Step to Address Biography Generation as an Iterative QA Task. 473-482
Answer Validation Exercise (AVE)
- Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera, Felisa Verdejo: The Effect of Entity Recognition on Answer Validation. 483-489
- Óscar Ferrández, Rafael M. Terol, Rafael Muñoz, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar: A Knowledge-Based Textual Entailment Approach Applied to the AVE Task. 490-493
- Wauter Bosma, Chris Callison-Burch: Paraphrase Substitution for Recognizing Textual Entailment. 502-509
- Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti: Experimenting a "General Purpose" Textual Entailment Learner in AVE. 510-517
- Ingo Glöckner: Answer Validation Through Robust Logical Inference. 518-521
- Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vázquez, Andrés Montoyo: University of Alicante at QA@CLEF2006: Answer Validation Exercise. 522-525
- Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri, Bernardo Magnini, Bonaventura Coppola: Towards Entailment-Based Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2006. 526-536
Question Answering Using Wikipedia (WiQA)
- Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke: Link-Based vs. Content-Based Retrieval for Question Answering Using Wikipedia. 537-540
- Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, Josef Steinberger, Udo Kruschwitz, Mijail Alexandrov Kabadjov, Massimo Poesio: Identifying Novel Information Using Latent Semantic Analysis in the WiQA Task at CLEF 2006. 541-549
- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso: A Bag-of-Words Based Ranking Method for the Wikipedia Question Answering Task. 550-553
- Antonio Toral Ruiz, Georgiana Puscasu, Lorenza Moreno-Monteagudo, Rubén Izquierdo-Beviá, Estela Saquete Boró: University of Alicante at WiQA 2006. 554-560
- Constantin Orasan, Georgiana Puscasu: A High Precision Information Retrieval Method for WiQA. 561-568
Part V: Cross-Language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
Overviews
- Paul Clough, Michael Grubinger, Thomas Deselaers, Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller: Overview of the ImageCLEF 2006 Photographic Retrieval and Object Annotation Tasks. 579-594
- Henning Müller, Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Paul Clough, Eugene Kim, William R. Hersh: Overview of the ImageCLEFmed 2006 Medical Retrieval and Medical Annotation Tasks. 595-608
ImageCLEFphoto
- Ray R. Larson: Text Retrieval and Blind Feedback for the ImageCLEFphoto Task. 609-612
- José Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ana M. García-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, Paloma Martínez: Expanding Queries Through Word Sense Disambiguation. 613-616
- Masashi Inoue: Using Visual Linkages for Multilingual Image Retrieval. 617-624
- Yih-Chen Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen: Approaches of Using a Word-Image Ontology and an Annotated Image Corpus as Intermedia for Cross-Language Image Retrieval. 625-632
- Kieran McDonald, Gareth J. F. Jones: Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Experiments for the ImageCLEF Photo Collection Standard Ad Hoc Task. 633-637
ImageCLEFmed
- Henning Müller, Tobias Gass, Antoine Geissbühler: Image Classification with a Frequency-Based Information Retrieval Scheme for ImageCLEFmed 2006. 638-643
- Lokesh Setia, Alexandra Teynor, Alaa Halawani, Hans Burkhardt: Grayscale Radiograph Annotation Using Local Relational Features. 644-651
- Philipp Daumke, Jan Paetzold, Kornél G. Markó: MorphoSaurus in ImageCLEF 2006: The Effect of Subwords On Biomedical IR. 652-659
- William R. Hersh, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Jeffery R. Jensen: Medical Image Retrieval and Automated Annotation: OHSU at ImageCLEF 2006. 660-669
- Filip Florea, Alexandrina Rogozan, Eugen Barbu, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Stéfan Jacques Darmoni: MedIC at ImageCLEF 2006: Automatic Image Categorization and Annotation Using Combined Visual Representations. 670-677
- Jing Liu, Yang Hu, Mingjing Li, Songde Ma, Wei-Ying Ma: Medical Image Annotation and Retrieval Using Visual Features. 678-685
- Mark Oliver Güld, Christian Thies, Benedikt Fischer, Thomas Martin Deserno: Baseline Results for the ImageCLEF 2006 Medical Automatic Annotation Task. 686-689
- Bo Qiu: A Refined SVM Applied in Medical Image Annotation. 690-693
- Caroline Lacoste, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim, Diem Thi Hoang Le, Wei Xiong, Daniel Racoceanu, Roxana Teodorescu, Nicolas Vuillemenot: Inter-media Concept-Based Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval with UMLS at IPAL. 694-701
- Miguel E. Ruiz: UB at ImageCLEFmed 2006. 702-705
ImageCLEFphoto and med
- Julien Gobeill, Henning Müller, Patrick Ruch: Translation by Text Categorisation: Medical Image Retrieval in ImageCLEFmed 2006. 706-710
- Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Maite Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Luis Alfonso Ureña López: Using Information Gain to Improve the ImageCLEF 2006 Collection. 711-714
- Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Varun Sood, Bipin C. Desai, Prabir Bhattacharya: CINDI at ImageCLEF 2006: Image Retrieval & Annotation Tasks for the General Photographic and Medical Image Collections. 715-724
- Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Weyand, Hermann Ney: Image Retrieval and Annotation Using Maximum Entropy. 725-734
- Nicolas Maillot, Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Joo-Hwee Lim: Inter-media Pseudo-relevance Feedback Application to ImageCLEF 2006 Photo Retrieval. 735-738
- Thomas Wilhelm, Maximilian Eibl: ImageCLEF 2006 Experiments at the Chemnitz Technical University. 739-743
Part VI: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CLSR)
- Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, Izhak Shafran: Overview of the CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track. 744-758
- Pavel Ircing, Ludek Müller: Benefit of Proper Language Processing for Czech Speech Retrieval in the CL-SR Task at CLEF 2006. 759-765
- Rafael M. Terol, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Manuel Palomar: Applying Logic Forms and Statistical Methods to CL-SR Performance. 766-769
- Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman, Laurens van der Werff, Franciska de Jong: XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word Archives. 770-777
- Muath Alzghool, Diana Zaiu Inkpen: Experiments for the Cross Language Speech Retrieval Task at CLEF 2006. 778-785
- Gareth J. F. Jones, Ke Zhang, Adenike M. Lam-Adesina: Dublin City University at CLEF 2006: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments. 794-802
Part VII: Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
- Carlos G. Figuerola, José Luis Alonso Berrocal, Ángel F. Zazo Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez: Improving Web Pages Retrieval Using Combined Fields. 820-825
- David Pinto, Paolo Rosso, Ernesto Jiménez: A Penalisation-Based Ranking Approach for the Mixed Monolingual Task of WebCLEF 2006. 826-829
- Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke: Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval. 830-833
- Ben Heuwing, Thomas Mandl, Robert Strötgen: Multilingual Web Retrieval Experiments with Field Specific Indexing Strategies for WebCLEF 2006 at the University of Hildesheim. 834-837
- Franco Rojas López, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, David Pinto: Vocabulary Reduction and Text Enrichment at WebCLEF. 838-843
- Stephen Tomlinson: Experiments with the 4 Query Sets of WebCLEF 2006. 844-847
- Syntia Wijaya, Bimo Widhi, Tommy Khoerniawan, Mirna Adriani: Applying Relevance Feedback for Retrieving Web-Page Retrieval. 848-851
Part VIII: Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
- Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Diana Santos, Paulo Rocha, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro: GeoCLEF 2006: The CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. 852-876
- José Miguel Goñi-Menoyo, José Carlos González Cristóbal, Sara Lana-Serrano, Ángel Martínez-González: MIRACLE's Ad-Hoc and Geographical IR Approaches for CLEF 2006. 877-880
- Geoffrey Andogah: GIR Experimentation. 881-888
- Antonio Toral, Óscar Ferrández, Elisa Noguera, Zornitsa Kozareva, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz: GIR with Geographic Query Expansion. 889-892
- Rocio Guillén: Monolingual and Bilingual Experiments in GeoCLEF2006. 893-900
- Johannes Leveling, Dirk Veiel: Experiments on the Exclusion of Metonymic Location Names from GIR. 901-904
- Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega: GEOUJA System. The First Participation of the University of Jaén at GEOCLEF 2006. 913-917
- Manuel García Vega, Miguel Angel García Cumbreras, Luis Alfonso Ureña López, José M. Perea-Ortega, Francisco Javier Ariza-López, Óscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, Zornitsa Kozareva, Elisa Noguera, Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Muñoz, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso: R2D2 at GeoCLEF 2006: A Combined Approach. 918-925
- Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker: Blind Relevance Feedback and Named Entity Based Query Expansion for Geographic Retrieval at GeoCLEF 2006. 946-953
- Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Emilio Sanchis: A WordNet-Based Indexing Technique for Geographical Information Retrieval. 954-957
- Claudia Hauff, Dolf Trieschnigg, Henning Rode: University of Twente at GeoCLEF 2006: Geofiltered Document Retrieval. 958-961
- Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez: TALP at GeoCLEF 2006: Experiments Using JIRS and Lucene with the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus. 962-969
- Miguel E. Ruiz, June M. Abbas, David Mark, Stuart Shapiro, Sílvia Barcellos Southwick: UB at GeoCLEF 2006. 978-985
- Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Leonardo Andrade, Mário J. Silva: The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2006. 986-994
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